Editing Banknote (section)

==Confiscation and asset forfeiture==
In the United States, there are many laws that allow the confiscation of cash and other assets from the bearer if there is suspicion that the money came from an illegal activity.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.isil.org/resources/lit/looting-of-america.html |title=International Society for Individual Liberty |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120609090225/http://www.isil.org/resources/lit/looting-of-america.html |archive-date=9 June 2012 }}</ref> Because a significant amount of U.S. currency contains traces of [[cocaine]] and other illegal drugs, it is not uncommon for innocent people searched at airports or stopped for traffic violations to have cash in their possession sniffed by dogs for drugs and then have the cash seized because the dog smelled drugs on the money. It is then up to the owner of the money to prove where the cash came from at his own expense. Many people simply forfeit the money.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ndsn.org/dec94/dog.html|title=Drug Dog's "Alert" to Cash Not Grounds for Forfeiture When Up to 75 percent of Currency Tainted With Drugs|work=ndsn.org|access-date=5 June 2012|archive-date=11 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011231221/http://ndsn.org/dec94/dog.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1994, the [[United States]] Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, held in the case of ''United States of America v. U.S. Currency, $30,060.00'' (39 F.3d 1039 63 USLW 2351, No. 92-55919) that the widespread presence of illegal substances on paper currency in the Los Angeles area created a situation where the reaction of a drug-sniffing dog would not create probable cause for civil forfeiture.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F3/39/39.F3d.1039.92-55919.html|title=Resource.org|access-date=16 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603030836/https://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F3/39/39.F3d.1039.92-55919.html|archive-date=3 June 2013|url-status = dead}}</ref>